West End

One Night Only at the Ivy

Imagine all your favourite actors decided to quit the screen and
stage to work in a restaurant... Wouldn't it be completely surreal
and a little bit exciting? Well, it actually happened for the Ivy's
One Night Only event in aid of the Combined Theatrical Charities.
Emma Thompson, Lord
Fellowes, Sir Derek Jacobi and
Freddie Fox turned waiting staff, Phyllida Law and
Joanna David donned rubber gloves and aprons to scrub the
ladies' loos while
Elizabeth McGovern and
Amy Nuttall became the front of house girls. Orders were taken,
plates whizzed around the room and happy diners tucked into yummy
dishes as the celebrity troop kept donations flying in. And then,
once service was over and everyone thought they could go home for a
sleep, the silent auction began and dinner with Lord Fellowes, Emma
Thompson and a week at Griff Rhys Jones' cottage in Wales went
under the hammer. A celebrity-run restaurant - fun!